You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Films Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of memorable supporting players acting as hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Among the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking pirates.
17. RMS Titanic (1997)
Two hours of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stranded in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Sam Neill portray a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An Englishman, shipping items for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.
11. Overwhelming Power (1974)
The director provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled yarn of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to lead his followers through the upturned hull to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.
9. Total Loss (2013)
Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual battling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks provides sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from real events. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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